激进改革（影印本）

ThisbookisacollectionofwritingsbyearlyReformationradicalswhichillustratesboththediversityandtheareasofagreementintheirpoliticalthinking.Thetextsaredrawnfromtheperiod1521-27andcentreonthemajorupheavalofthoseyearsforGermansociety，thePeasants’sWarof1524-26.Thethinkersrepresented-Muntzer，Karlstadt，Grebel，Hut，Denck，andothers-differedonimportanttheologicalissues.YettheradicalsallrejectedtheReformationofthemagisterialreformersasservingtheinterestsofsociety’selite.TheyadvocatedastrategyofReformationthroughdirectactionfrombelow，asweepingtransformationofsocietytothebenefitofthelaycommonerandthelocalcommunity.WiththestartofthePeasants’War.raidcalsdividedovertheissueofthelegitimacyofforce.ThisdevistionshapedthewaysinwhichtheyconfrontedthefailureofthePeasants’Waraswessasthenewstrategiesforsurvivalwhichtheydevelopedinitsafermath.AppendedtothetextsareanumberofpoliticalofthePeasants’War.Thesedocumentsillustratewaysinwhichtheradicalscontributedtotherevolution.andhowtheuprisingitselfledtogreaterclarityinthepoliticaltheoryoftheradicalReformation.